The semantic metadatabase (SEMEDA): Ontology based integration of federated molecular biological data sources

In Silico Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 219-231

  Köhler, Jacob ^a   Schulze Kremer, Steffen ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Resource Center DHGP   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabulary; Knowledge representation; Meta database; Molecular biology; Ontology; Semantic database integration

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTEGRATION; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PUBLICATION; SCIENCE; SEMANTICS; ARTICLE; GENETIC DATABASE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

DATABASES, GENETIC; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 0345359314     PISSN: 13866338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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